Howard Rogers: Question about Cloning Procedure

I'm starting to go through your cloning procedures again. This time my
original database is 'PROD', and I want to clone to a new database
called 'TEST', but I'm trying to be a bit more disciplined this time :).

In Step 1, where you're editing the .TRC file, in 'b', you say to add a
line to connect. Which database instance should this connect to? In my
case, should it be to 'PROD' or to 'TEST'?

In 'c', where you say to add a "PFILE=<init...ora>", if you ever update
your instructions, you may want to point out that with 9i, there is not
init...ora, but you can go into SQLPlus and do a "CREATE PFILE...FROM
SPFILE...".
Also regarding 'c', which init...ora file should the PFILE be set to?
To the new, edited init...ora?

The reason for my questions is that it seems like when you're in Step 1,
the TEST database instance hasn't been created yet, so you can't even
connect to it yet? I have a feeling that's why when I went through this
the first time, I ended up with both the source and the target database
instances pointing to my e:\Cloned directory.

Is there a way to connect to the TEST database instance before it's been
created?